Source: Birmingham Business Journal With a manufacturing base, proximity to several interstate highways and a number of industrial parks, the Birmingham region is clearly attractive to the railroad industry. That was particularly true in the case of Norfolk Southern, which announced plans in 2009 to invest $112 million to build an intermodal facility in McCalla.... Continue reading→

Source: Birmingham Business Journal It’s no small trick, finding a place to transfer manufacturing materials from trains onto trucks. Yet developers located just such a patch of ground in their efforts to create the CSX Intermodal Facility in Bessemer. “Birmingham is topographically challenged in the first place. Trying to piece together 25 acres of flat... Continue reading→

Source: Birmingham Business Journal Liberty Pipe’s new home within the 115-acre Interstate Industrial Park in Bessemer bears little, if any, resemblance to the Pullman railway manufacturing facility that once occupied the site. To revive the building after six dormant years, developers renovated the electrical system, removed five large paint booths, replaced roof tiles, added drive-in... Continue reading→